In message <33E1E7C6.7991A45@tripod.net>, Drakir <Drahcir@tripod.net>
writes>I think the "Smoking stunts growth..." one was pretty good. You said>yourself that you didn't want to make people quit, but rather to prevent>people from starting.

Well I meant to say that I couldnt think of much I could do to
help people quit, but I couls do something to reduce the no. taking it
up in the future.

>> >> As I said the spokespeople would make sensible targets, ans they>> apear publicaly quite often.>>Do they? When and where?

On newsnight (with studio audience) when they are spurting out
such shit as
"oh the ban on sponsorship is terrible, sports will suffer."

>>> >Wrong! If we can engineer the memes for the next generation to move>> >away from Nuclear arms and into better democracy, then we can do>> >something NOW HERE about it. In fact, I reckon that we stand more>> >chance of that than we do of building an anti-smoking meme. After all,>> >nuclear arms aren't addictive!>> >> OK then you start, create a meme that might do some good, I cant>> think of anything.>>"Extended weather forcast: Planet Earth, year ****, 3000 degrees and>cloudy...">>Or something along those lines.

Yeah but thats got no hook, no potential to explode into the
media and infest a load more hosts. The "if you're dying from tobacco
then consider killing a tobacco spokesperson" meme has all this.

>>> no matter how hard you try you>> can only be a nice compassionate guy.>>It's a habbit I'm trying to kick ;)